A man accused of shooting his girlfriend last year will go before a Mason County Circuit Court jury in June.
Rickey Allen Bowen, 64, was indicted in January on a charge of attempted murder by a Mason County grand jury after he allegedly shot his girlfriend in the head in December 2018.
According to testimony given during a preliminary hearing before Judge Jeffrey Schumacher in Mason District Court in December, Deputy Josh Germann of the Mason County Sheriff’s office responded to a residence on Slack Pike on Dec. 8, in answer to a report that a woman had been shot.
Upon arrival, Germann said he found Bowen, who told the deputy he had accidentally shot his girlfriend as she slept. Germann said he made contact with the female victim who had a gunshot wound to her forehead.
The woman told the deputy that she had been asleep when she was awakened by a pain in her head and saw Bowen standing over her. She said she jumped up and went to check on her son whom she found unharmed.
The couple had been arguing prior to the incident, according to Sheriff Patrick Boggs.
Germann said Bowen later told him that he intended to kill his girlfriend and then himself.
Bowen also faces one count of theft by unlawful taking firearm after he told Germann that he took the .22-caliber handgun used in the shooting from a barn that belonged to his landlord, stood over his girlfriend and shot her in the head, the deputy testified. Bowen was unaware the gun was loaded with ammunition described as a “pest control’ shot that shoots out pellets rather than a bullet, Germann said.
The victim was treated at the hospital for her injuries and later released.
Bowen was arrested and lodged in the Mason County Detention Center, where he remains on a $100,000 cash bond. His trial is scheduled to get underway on June 4 before Judge Stockton Wood.
